Whitley is a speedy outfielder, listed as 6-2, 195 pounds. He is 18 years old and has committed to play college baseball at Wake Forest.
The MLB Network announcers described Whitley as “maybe the best assortment of tools of anybody in this draft in terms of his offensive profiling and the speed and the ability to stay in center field. There is maybe not another high school bat with more upside.”